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During the eleventh century in al-Andalus, Jews living under the rule of Islam,
amongst Muslims and Christians, experienced a cultural rebirth known as the Golden
Age of Hebrew poetry (c. 1000-1 090). Yet there is no ...

This paper is a translation and study of El Relato del Nacimiento de Jesus, an aljamiado
story of the birth of Jesus, written by underground Muslims in Spain during the Spanish
Inquisition circa the sixteenth century. ...

In 1605, Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes published the literary masterpiece Don
Quixote that has impacted the literary, political, and social world. Cervantes created the
crazy knight-errant Don Quixote and his humble peasant ...

In her second novel, Sapogonia, Ana Castillo challenges and
confronts the canon by dismantling and defying the dominant
ideologies of Westem androcentric literature. Using Castillo's first
novel, The Mixguiahuala Letters, ...

An impulse to protect the French language and exclude foreign languages, specifically English, has become prominent throughout France in the last two decades. This movement for linguistic purism, rooted in historical ...

In essence, the problem with history is that it is often told by those who win battles, win land, gain riches and status, leaving those who are subjugated to dwell in the shadows of history. This study seeks to write a ...

Neoliberal economic development has in many ways hindered poverty reduction in Latin America. Costa Rica is a prime example of this. As one of the least poor countries in the region, Costa Rica might be seen as evidence ...

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